High-speed railway is a very important part of transportation industry in China, and travel choice has key effect on the development of high-speed railway. Therefore,research on travel behavior of passengers and prediction their travel choice, will offer valuable suggestion for high-speed railway running. In this paper, support vector machine (SVM) is the main method being used to predict. Supp...

User-Generated Content (UGC) on the World Wide Web has empowered travellers, enabling them to exchange opinions or experiences with others, and consequently, influencing their travel decisions. Travellers are able to make comments in a large variety of forms such as photos, videos, podcasts, ratings, reviews, articles and blogs. When people use the Internet to obtain travel information, they do...

In order to investigate the opportunities offered as well as the problems facing any consumer trying to make his own travel reservations over the Internet today, an empirical study was conducted among students attending an intermediary level course on Electronic Commerce. The study was divided into two parts, consisting of (i) a quotation competition in which the students were to act as travel ...

The Medical Council of India (MCI) via amendment to the “Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulation 2002” has brought out the code of conduct for doctors and professional association of doctors in their relationship with pharmaceutical and allied health sector industry which prohibit them from accepting any gifts, travel facility or hospitality, from any phar...

Travelers are becoming increasingly used to the need to seek appropriate health advice before embarking on trips, particularly to developing countries. Travel health advice is given in various ways and through various media.1 Printed material often accompanies a travel health professional's oral explanations. Leaflets, booklets, brochures and other printed material have been used for a long tim...

Observers of the Electronic Commerce (EC) landscape often comment on the prospects for disintermediation. Other observers note that the nature of EC will create new kinds of intermediaries, termed “cybermediaries”, who would occupy positions in Internet channels between producers and consumers. The word coined to describe this is “reintermediation”. In either case, traditional retailers would b...

This paper extends the limits to value model of Davern and Kauffman [16] to explore market and process-level factors that impact value flows to firms for their information technology (IT) investments. We characterize IT value in terms of potential value and realized value, and show how each is subject to different effects limits to value that diminish the benefits of the investment. Our typolog...

The importance of new information and communication technologies (ICT) for the travel and tourism industry has increased enormously over the past few years. The tourism area is one of those industries which can gain huge synergy effects from the use of the Internet. This research addresses the issue of competitive advantage for the travel and tourism area by using information technologies, in p...

This article examines the effect of Internet-based electronic markets on consumer search in the travel and tourism industry. Two experiments provide the empirical basis for the article. We address the question of whether consumer search in electronic markets is different from search in conventional markets. In this work we refine the efficiency of consumer search and its effects with the follow...